Head-rest attachment for hammocks.



A. A. SCHIMMEL.

HEAD REST ATTACHMENT Fon HAMMocKs.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 2 I9I3.

PatentedA Oct. 17, 1916.

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ABRAHAM A. SCHIMMEL, 0F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HEAD-REST ATTACHMENT FOR HAMMOCKS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented (1ct. 17, 1916.

Application filed December 2, 1913. Serial No. 804,316.

To all whom it may concern: y

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM A. Sonna- MeL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of vSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Head-Rest Attachments for Hammocks, of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to head rest attachments for hammocks and it has for its object to provide a head rest of this kind which will be particularly adaptedto be applied to the wind shield of a couch hammock.

The invention consists of a head rest attachment for hammocks comprising a head board provided with means adapted to be separably engaged with the wind shield or suspending devices for the hammock, said means preferably consisting of a pair of hanger hooks, one near each end thereof adapted'to be hung upon the upper edge of the wind shield. The two hooks are obliquely disposed relatively to the head board so that when the rest is in use the head board slants or inclines downwardly from the wind shield to which the rest is attached.

Other features of my invention are hereinafter pointed out. l

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of one end of a couch hammock showing my new head rest in position thereon. Fig. 2 is an end view of my new head rest. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of my new head rest showing the same inverted and collapsed.

Having reference to the drawings, 2 represents a couch hammock, provided withV a wind shield 3. Each end wall of the wind shield of a hammock of the type shown comprises two vertical metal bars 4 which are connected near their upper ends by a top cross bar 5, the three hars 4 and 5 serve as a frame to which the top and side edges of the canvas of the end wall are secured, leaving the middle of the canvas unsupported bwith the result that a pillow or other head rest leaned against said canvas is not properly supported thereby and will be depressed by the weight of the person using it. The canvas of the rear wall of the wind shield is connected at its edges only with rigid supports so that it, also, will not properly support a pillow leaned against it.

My new head rest attachment comprises a head board 6 which may be provided on its top side with a pad 7 of felt, hair or other suitable yielding material, over which eX- vtends a cover 8 of leather or the like, whose edges are folded around onto the underside of the board and secured there as by means of tacks 9. Near each end of head board 6 there is a hanger 10 made from a rod or piece of wire bent so asto provide a hook 11 at the upper end thereof, an oblique shank 12 rotatably fastened to the under sideA of head board 6 by staples 13, and a stop arm 14 at the lower end thereof adapted, by engagement with the underside of head board 6 to limit the rotary movement of the shank 12.

The angular relation between the stop arms 14 and the body or upright portion 10 of the hanger is such that when the head rest is removed from the wind shield the hangers can be folded down into substantially the same plane with head board 6. This collapsible feature of my head rest makes for convenience in handling, storing and shipping. Also by having the hangers pivotally connected with head board 6 they may be adjusted toward and from each other to fit the device to the width of the shield wall to which it is applied. The stop arms 14 alsov serve to hold the shanks 12 against being length to permit the lowermost side of head board 6 to rest on the top of the mattress of the hammock so that when the rest is applied to the rear wall of the shield it will l be held by the mattress against sagging or yielding materially under the weight of the person using it. Ordinarily, however, the. head rest will be applied to -one or the other of the two end walls, and in order to distribute the strain on said wall as well as to support the head rest in the best possible fashion independently of the mattress, the head board 6 is made to extend beyond the hangers so that when in position its higher side rests against upright bars 4 as shown in Fig. 1, with the hangers between said bars and engaging the top bar 5.

The bars 4 and 5 of the hammock shown, not only serve as the frame of the end wall of the shield but each bar 4 is connected at its lower end with the mattress supporting frame 16 of the hammock and has a supporting chainA or the like 15 connected With its upper end as usual so that said bars also form part of the hammock supporting` means. Y

1What I claim is A head rest attachment for hammocks comprising a head board and a pair of an gular hanger hooks Whose lower portions extend across the under side of said board and are pivotally connected therewith so that their upper ends can be swung lengthwise of the hoard to adjust them to the support they are to engage and can also be swung down into the same plane With the board when the rest is not in use, the upper portions of said hooks being obliquely disposed With relation to the head board so as to support the latter in an inclined position.

In testimony whereof I have aliixed my signature, in presence of a Witness.

ABRAHAM A. SCHIMMEL.

Vitness GEORGE A. ROCKWELL.

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